Who Killed Walter Benjamin…
… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.
Who Killed Walter Benjamin…(2005)
… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.
6.0/ 10 (3 votes)
1h 13m
2005-10-06
00Overview
Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.